In the pantheon of literature, Emma Bovary does not have the best place.
Frivolous, sensual, sad.
France 2 intends to shake up this image with a committed rereading of Gustave Flaubert's classic.
Signing a traditional adaptation did not interest the producers Laurence Bachman and Marie Dupuy d'Angeac.
The duo hope to "bring
out the modern echoes of the text and replace the fate of their heroine, victim of a society where the place of women was marginalized"
.
Their fiction opens with the lawsuit brought in 1857 to Flaubert for
"contempt of morality"
.
His account of the despair and boredom of a romantic soul unhappy in her marriage, a prisoner of social conventions and giving in to adultery had scandalized the bourgeois society of the Second Empire.
Verbal jousting
For its first days of shooting in early August, the 90-minute TV movie, directed by Didier Bivel, took over the historic administrative court of Melun and its imposing courtroom all in woodwork.
"We are before
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